Excel 97 and 2000 should be able to read workbooks you create in Excel 2002.
Before that, no, unless you convert the file format via File, Save As.

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Jim
"tomhelle" wrote in message
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|I have a series od spreadsheets that are hyperlinked together under a
single
| file created with Excel 2002. Each of the spreadsheets have comments and
| imbedded graphics.
|
| Question - Can earlier versions of Excel functionally compatible to read
the
| hyperlinks, comments, and imbedded graphics I've created usaing Excel
2002?
| Thanks in advance.